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Rating: 6/10 (9 August 2006)

This film is best when looked at as anti-apocalyptic. I heard people say this was anti-white. It talked about survival and culture clashes. Being blunt helps. People think situations like these are times to enact upon their darkest impulses. (i.e. Katrina tragedy) Victims are more than the zombies. It is the tale of misogyny justified. People spend more time thinking about themselves yet not on a global scale. I think this speaks to a current age of wartime and who are the real victims. Jim is a representative of the decent people who are oblivious to the dark side of human nature and when he finally awakes he becomes what he would have feared during his ordinary lifetime of being a normal law abiding citizen. What I mean to say is that he wasn't mentally ill, a road rager, etc. yet ironically he is the one blindsided in a car accident and it makes him realize the great and ultimately most damaging negative feeling in humanity is not despair but anger turned inward. I feel an objection however in the fact that selena and hannah were just used as props and archetypes. Selena starts out as a strong female/heroine yet ends up the victim so that Jim can uncover and unleash his animal nature to save her. It is a film that comes full circle I must say. A primate releases the infection borne of human rage and human anger leads to uncivilized animalistic behavior that saves Selena and Hannah in the end. However it is sad that the true ending would have been more poignant if Hannah and Selena internally and externally(verbally) confronted the despair of losing Jim and their families. In the end, the film is a film about irony and making allies in tough times. Also human nature is usually unpredictable in the worst and best circumstances.